New Harkins Tempe Marketplace 16
Harkins has opened a brand spanking new movie theater at the corner of the Loop 101 and Loop 102. The Tempe Marketplace 16 opened on June 29th, and I was first in line on June 30th. I can't stand driving to a theater at the shopping mall and fighting over three parking spaces with seven hundred cars, so the addition of a beautiful Tempe theater that's not encapsulated in a mall is like heaven. It's a beautiful facility, nestled inside a deceptively large labyrinth of shops and eats (most of which are still under construction), and hey! It's got the Ciné Capri! Arizona's largest screen! It's very retro-glamorous and enormous-- with real moving curtains and everything, the way a Ciné Capri should be. We sat in the Ciné Capri and watched the fourth "Die Hard" movie, and with the gigantic, curved screen and crazy enhanced sound I swear a couple of times I thought I was the one dangling precariously from the wing of a fighter jet over a collapsing overpass. But I always kind of feel that way.
